It’s still on: Six more members of Congress call for Eric Holder’s resignation

[Valin]

Hot Air:

 

Tina Korbe

3/7/12

 

Between the contraception kerfuffle and the GOP primaries, the MSM has had too much to cover to tackle the fallout from Fast and Furious, too. Just kidding. Even if nothing else were going on, you’d still hear this news from just a handful of people. The Daily Caller’s Matthew Boyle reports this morning that the count of congressmen calling for Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation has reached 109:

 

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As a reminder, Fast and Furious — a program of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms — was a purported drug-busting operation in which ATF officials intentionally sold guns to straw purchasers who, in turn, sold the weapons to leaders of Mexican drug cartels. But if the intention of the officials was to bust the cartels, they had a curious way of showing it: No credible attempt was made to track the weapons from the hands of the straw purchasers into the hands of the drug cartel leaders. As a result, the weapons were never interdicted and some have since shown up on the scene of violent crimes in both the U.S. and Mexico. The ultimately lethal program led to the deaths of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and more than 200 Mexicans. Hundreds more of the guns are still not accounted for and likely to turn up at the scenes of future tragedies.

 

The congressional investigation led by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has revealed enough for us to know Attorney General Eric Holder was either aware and in approval of the program or incompetent and negligent — either of which scenario would be grounds for Obama to demand his resignation.

 

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By now it should be obvious to all that these 109 members of Congress are racists who want to get rid of AG Holder just because he's black....and this has nothing to do with all the people dead on both side of the border, and the civil war in Mexico.

[Rheo]

House Resolution 490

 

 

Whereas in response to Congressional inquiries, the Administration, through Attorney General Holder’s office, initially provided false information to Congress;

 

Whereas in response to Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms whistleblowers who came to Congress, the Administration, through Attorney General Holder’s office, retaliated against such whistleblowers; and

 

Whereas in response to Congressional inquiries, the Administration, through Attorney General Holder’s office, has redacted key information and has been intransigent, obstructionist, and obdurate: Now, therefore, be it

 

Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress has lost confidence in the Attorney General of the United States.

 

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I see no racism in this.

 

How many will it have to take to compel Obama to ask for his resignation?

[Argyle58]

I get the feeling that this resolution was introduced as a prelude to impeachment proceedings against Holder, assuming that The "o" wins his re-election bid...........a prospect that is getting more and more likely as we are having the "vanilla" candidate foist upon us once more.

[RandyM]

House Resolution 490

 

 

Whereas in response to Congressional inquiries, the Administration, through Attorney General Holder’s office, initially provided false information to Congress;

 

Whereas in response to Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms whistleblowers who came to Congress, the Administration, through Attorney General Holder’s office, retaliated against such whistleblowers; and

 

Whereas in response to Congressional inquiries, the Administration, through Attorney General Holder’s office, has redacted key information and has been intransigent, obstructionist, and obdurate: Now, therefore, be it

 

Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress has lost confidence in the Attorney General of the United States.

 

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I see no racism in this.

 

How many will it have to take to compel Obama to ask for his resignation?

 

435 in the House and 100 in the Senate...... and even then it would only be a 'maybe'.